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American Foundation for the Blind: Assistive Technology Products

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
In this section, you will find a comprehensive listing of assistive technology products used by people who are blind or visually impaired organized by category.
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American Printing House: Welcome to the Braille Bug

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This resource is for learning about braille. Links are provided to change colors, increase font size, decode braille, learn about braille, discuss some books with others and play games.
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Making a Car for Blind Drivers

For Students 9th - 10th
Using robotics, laser rangefinders, GPS and smart feedback tools, Dennis Hong is building a car for drivers who are blind. It's not a "self-driving" car, he's careful to note, but a car in which a non-sighted driver can determine speed,...
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Codi: Voice Recognition Products

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
CODI provides valuable resources for those who need voice recognition products to enable their computing needs. The products are listed in a series of links.
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Codi: Vision and Computing

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Informative site for those who need assistance with computing needs due to low vision or blindness. Many links provided to arrive at a solution!
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Blind Readers' Page

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This Blind Readers' site provides links to hundreds of resources for students who are blind or vision impaired and their families. They include spoken word resources, information on assistive technologies, speech recognition, Braille...
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Blind Readers' Page

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This Blind Readers' site provides links to hundreds of resources for students who are blind or vision impaired and their families. They include spoken word resources, information on assistive technologies, speech recognition, Braille...
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Infinitec: Total Resource Guide: Visual

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
A resource guide that is a great help to locating a full array of assistive products and services for persons with blindness or visual impairments.
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American Foundation for the Blind: Blindness and Low Vision

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Blindness or visual impairment can have a profound impact on one's life. This organization provides a great deal of helpful information about resources that will assist the visually impaired person to lead a normal, productive life.
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University of North Carolina

University of North Carolina: Bats

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Software download from the University of North Carolina based on research for "Helping people without sight access and explore spatial information."
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University of North Carolina

Hark the Sound: Sound Game for Kids

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This resource offers a sound game that is available for free to use with students who are blind or visually impaired.
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University of Wisconsin

Uwm: Apple Macintosh Software Toolkit

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A complete page of free downloads that allow the Macintosh computer to be more easily used by people with poor vision.
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Echospeech Voice of the Web

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
ECHOSPEECH is a very high quality speech coder that compresses speech 18.5 to 1. Plugins are provided for both Macs and PCs.
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Download Braille and Asl Specialty Fonts

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Helpful page serves as a resource of free fonts for both Braille and American Sign Language.
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Bookshare

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Bookshare.org offers both individual subscriptions and accounts for schools or groups a program that allows persons with blindness or visual impairments to download popular books from the Internet. Digital books can then be read with a...